The Sound Is Innocent

Release Date: 2019-10-03

Overview: As if directing a science-fiction film, Johana Ožvold dissects the story of electronic music. From the pioneer sound engineers working behind the Iron Curtain, through the French avant-garde composers, up to the post-modern creators of digital sonic artefacts, the first-time filmmaker summons an abstract landscape that is haunting and yet achingly beautiful. A voice appears from old television screens forgotten in the maze of some futuristic archive where past and future seem to coexist in a complex and multi-layered way.

Rating: 4 / 10

Cast

Johana Ožvold

as Narrator (voice)

Crew

Kryštof Melka - Camera Operator
Matěj Piňos - Camera Operator
Zuzana Walter - First Assistant Director
Johana Ožvold - Idea
Julie Horvathová - Script

Reviews

SWITCH.:

Electronic music can be minimalist or towering, hermetic or porous. It can be made of other music or made only of itself, of electricity shaped into waves. It can be staggeringly soulful or mystically...